Nordic Songs and Romances

Helge Slaatto
Helge Slaatto (born 1952) was concertmaster of Odense Symphony
Orchestra, Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Randers Chamber
Orchestra. For 25 years he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik
der Universität Münster, presently he teachers at MGK Copenhagen.
He gave master classes throughout the world and his students won
prizes at major international competitions like the Joachim Competition,
Hannover, the Leopold Mozart Competition, Augsburg and the Queen
Elisabeth Competition, Bruxelles.
His long and fruitful collaboration with German double bass player
Frank Reinecke led to more than fifty works composed for the two, they
were also awarded the special prize of Deutsche Schallplattenkritik.
Their last CD, the much praised “Ars Nova-New Music”,presenting
vocal music from the early middle ages arranged for violin and double
bass, inspired Helge Slaatto to continued involvement with the world of
vocal music: Together with Anne Mette Stæhr, with whom he has been
performing since 1995, he has regularly played songs by Grieg, Sibelius
and others, a.o.at the Late Summer Festival in Hvide Sande and in
Copenhagen, of which Anette Slaatto and Helge Slaatto have been artistic
directors since 2014.
Helge Slaatto does not play the violin all the time, he also loves football !